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The Match

The Match

6,0 /10 (15 Votes)
1999 EN 95 min

Overview

Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.

Release date

13/08/1999

Votes

15

Popularity

1.8

It's a game of two pubs!

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

95 min

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Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

2021-05-02

⭐ 6

This movie can be harmless fun as long as you can lower your expectations more than a little. The entire premise of the film seems more than a little dubious to me. Why would owners of two pubs 100 years before make a bet based on one of them winning 99 matches in a row? Was one of the teams so bad and with no hope of ever getting better that making such a long-term bet based on the next 100 games made sense? Or, more likely, was this a plot gimmick dreamed up by the scriptwriters to create cheap but instant suspense? Yes, that was my conclusion also. Still, the movie was entertaining enoug…

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